Dane's Graves
The Dane's Graves (also called Danes' Graves or Danes Graves - German "Dänengraves" ) lie on a burial ground in a forest in Danesdale near Kilham, north of Driffield in the north of East Riding of Yorkshire in England .
The great Iron Age burial ground of the Parisii dates from the 2nd century BC. The earliest excavation on the site took place in 1721 when several burial mounds were examined. There are no records of this. The Yorkshire Antiquarian Club examined six mounds in 1849, and William Greenwell (1820–1918) opened fourteen mounds in two days in 1864. These examinations were all improper.
Between 1897 and 1898 W. Greenwell and John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911) excavated another 53 burial mounds. Later reports by the two describe a series of mounds between three and ten meters in diameter. The shallow graves were less than three feet high. The vast majority of the skeletons were north-south facing stool graves of the Arras culture . In 1897 the corpses of two men with carts and dishes were found in a cart grave typical of the culture . It is believed that it is a matter of a chief and his charioteer, who was presumably also killed to accompany his chief.
The grave goods within the mound varied. The 114 skeletons were equipped with 30 brooches, 17 ceramics, six bracelets, two pearls and a pin. The composition is similar to that of the Iron Age burial ground of Burton Fleming to the north.
literature
- Dorothea van Endert: On the position of the chariot graves of the Arras culture. 1986
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Parisii were a British Celtic tribe in the East Riding of Yorkshire. They are known from a single brief mention of Claudius Ptolemy in his Geographike Hyphegesis around 150 AD. They were associated with the Arras culture and with the better known Parisii of Gaul .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 20.2 " N , 0 ° 26 ′ 47" W.